Excerpt from Life of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary: Duchess of Thuringia<br><br>Charles forbes rene DE montalembert was born in London May 29, 1810. His grandfather, Count Jean de Montalembert, was one of the noblemen who were driven from France by the Revolution; and his father, who was fifteen years of age at the time of the emigra tion, took service with the English army in India. In 1808 the latter married the only child of James Forbes, an English gentleman who had spent several years in India, and was a writer upon philosophical and scientific subjects.<br><br>After the restoration, Charles' father returned to France, was made Minister Plenipotentiary to Stuttgart by Louis XVIII, and afterwards served as Ambassador to Sweden under Charles X.<br><br>The first eight years of our author's life were spent in London, at the home of his grandfather, Mr. James Forbes. He was educated at the College sainte-barbe, in Paris, and in 1831, upon the death of his father, entered the Chamber Of Peers.<br><br>The revolution Of 1848 abolished the Chamber of Peers, and the following year Montalembert was elected a mem ber of the National Assembly, for the Department of Doabs, the Old province of franche-comté.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.